[Rarebooks] fs: Eulogy of Willard Hotel founder, Henry Augustus Willard

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 10493 )  Willard, Henry Kellogg. ADDRESS BEFORE THE ASSOCIATION OF 
OLDEST INHABITANTS IN MEMORY OF HENRY AUGUSTUS WILLARD BY HIS SON HENRY 
KELLOGG WILLARD [COVER TITLE].
(S.l.): (s.n.), [ca. 1913]. First printing, Wrappers, Octavo, 26 pages. 
Fine.
      Memorial address to the founder of the Willard Hotel in Washington, 
DC, given by his son. Henry Augustus Willard was a native of Vermont who 
came to Washington in 1847. He first leased, then bought, the old "City 
Hotel" at Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street from Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, 
renaming it the Willard Hotel. This tribute to Willard is filled with 
fascinating anecdotes about the development of the hotel property and 
Washington society in last half of the 19th century. At rear is a tribute 
poem by John A. Joyce. Bound in brown paper covers printed in black, 
saddle-stapled binding. A few tiny extremity rubs....... $75.00
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